Examining Your Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) License

If you want to know what you are licensed for by way of your Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), you can find out in two places. If you reboot your ASA, licensing information is shown during the boot process. You likely will not want to reboot your ASA just to see the licensing information though, so you can also view it through the Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

Launch the ASDM, and on the Home screen, click the License tab in the Device Information section. An excerpt of the boot process in the following code so you can see the licensing that is presented during the boot process: